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Johannes Fried
Fried in 2019
Born (1942-05-23) 23 May 1942 (age 81)
EducationUniversity of Heidelberg (PhD)
Occupation(s)German historian and medievalist

Johannes Fried (born 23 May 1942, in Hamburg) is a German historian, professor, and medievalist.

Biography

Fried studied at the University of Heidelberg, where he obtained his doctorate in 1970 and his habilitation in 1977. He was professor at the University of Cologne 1980–1983 and has held the Chair of Medieval History at the University of Frankfurt am Main since 1983. He was a visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton from 1995 to 1996.

Fried is a member of several learned societies and was president of the Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands (German Society of Historians) from 1996 to 2000.

Theses

Johannes Fried considers Notger von Lüttich, not Johannes Canaparius, to be the author of Vita sancti Adalberti episcopi Pragensis on Adalbert von Prag (* 956 – † 997), written around 1000, which for the first time mentions Danzig (Gdansk) as "urbs Gyddanyzc".

Publications

(Only monographs are listed below)

Fried has also published a large number of book chapters and articles in journals.

References